Word: banally
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Several scenes in Georgy Girl have no point at all, but seem thrown in to keep up the banal gaiety and give the scriptwriters a chance to show off their whimsey. For no reason that can be fathomed from the plot, Georgy does a torrid parody of a vamp, swinging down a staircase and singing Mae West style. Equally irrelevant is a remark her father makes in another scene; he doesn't "know to what this world is coming...
...Kenneth R. Schumacher of Swedish Haven, Pa., are every bit as convincing as his faded movie stars and pop singers going to fat. Their predicaments, in fact, are often more convincing since O'Hara well knows how it is that bizarre events can occur in the most banal surroundings...
Lotsa tararara here. All about shooting multimillion-dollar movie epic. Called Helen of Troy. Greek island location. Nine million-dollar budget. Already $5,000,000 over that. Disaster. Fault of Superstar Margaret Dayton. She disappears. How to render Margaret: get the way she fills the blue jeans. Banal but central. She has one hell of a behind. But remember: a schoolgirl animated by sex. Tell about Margaret's sex life. Husband's. Mama's. Producer's. Director's. Agent's. Co-star's. Don't forget character with shoe fetish...
...stream of campaign rhetoric emanating from Levander headquarters has been surpassingly banal and has prevented his campaign from generating any real momentum. He started by labeling the Republican ticket the "integrity team." That did not catch, but Levander went right ahead and made his main campaign slogan "Let's be proud of Minnesota again." In an attempt to humanize their candidate the Republicans borrowed a leaf from John Lindsay's book and started issuing pamphlets asking, "What kind of guy is Harold Levander...
...subject of this unsatisfactory exercise is a young woman's frigidity, her failure as a wife and mother, her dabbling with Lesbianism, and her psycho-analysis. The dialogue is uproariously banal. Husband to wife re son: "Don't you realize that a lack of affection will cause him neurosis?" Wife to shrink: "Why, in my dreams, won't my mother let me sit beside her?" Shrink: "Are you sure you can't answer that?" Wife: "Perhaps because she kept me at a distance--even as a child...